‘Not science fiction’: Xiaomi’s revolutionary new wireless charging tech can charge your devices remotely

Xiaomi has announced Mi Air Charge, a revolutionary new wireless charging technology that can charge your electronic devices remotely within a radius of several meters. “It’s not science fiction,” Xiaomi says in a blog post describing what it is calling a “bold attempt to turn the whole house ‘truly’ wireless.” Using a set of proprietary hardware, Xiaomi has reimagined everything we thought we knew about wireless charging and is working towards a future without any cables or wireless charging stands.

Xiaomi has built a transmitter, roughly the size of a Mi Air Purifier, which comes outfitted with five phase interference antennas to ‘accurately’ detect your phone’s location while another array of 144 antennas transmits millimeter-wide waves directly to the phone through beamforming to charge it ‘over-the-air’.